Good morning reader friends! As I write this on Friday afternoon we have a crazy, but fun, weekend ahead. Bible study is here tonight – I’ve got Sangria with lots of fruit ready, the red and white kind; for a snack I’m serving chips (no, not homemade, but organic), with salsa and guacamole; and for a treat, some yummy strawberry crepes – I’ll have to get that recipe up one of these days, but it’s not totally sparkly… Our nephew is getting married tomorrow (party!), and my step-Dad’s 80th birthday brunch is Sunday. Fun but busy, SO thankfully I’ve got lots of goodies ready to share with you…
Last weekend our two oldest ran the Riverbank 5K and I loved seeing them give each other a high five as they crossed the finish line. 🙂 (Our middle schooler’s whole class did it together, cool huh?) Sadly, a 37 year old man had a heart attack and passed away during the 25K that day. Obviously, I have no idea what kind of diet he ate, but nonetheless, this timely article from Kimberly sure makes you think: One man’s search for the perfect human diet. Here’s an excerpt: “C.J. Hunt nearly died of cardiac arrest during a run. At age 24. This rude awakening led him to embark upon a quest for the underlying cause of his weak health at such a young age. He discovered the vital role nutrition plays in body building and set out to make a documentary film about the Perfect Human Diet.”
- Is anyone else as frustrated as we are with how quickly things around the house need to be repaired or replaced? We can’t keep up! This post from Mindful Momma, Keeping up with things that break, includes a very interesting video that actually offers a solution to this problem, when it comes to electronics anyway. “Consumer goods are made so damn cheaply these days it makes me sick. As they say in The Story of Electronics, most products sold today are Designed for the Dump. This creative video created by Annie Leonard of Story of Stuff fame, explains what actually happens to all this electronic crap when it gets “recycled” and eventually winds its way to the dump.”
- Remember I told you not long ago about the nutrition talk I did for our son’s middle school class? (Read about it: Teaching middle schoolers about Real Food. Soon I get to do that talk again for 5th graders!) Shortly after that when I was at school, some of the kids were asking me again about our “homemade pop” (kefir soda) and I was telling their teacher how interested they were. He said, “We should use that for science class!” I was all excited and told him, “Yeah, and you can borrow my supplies, the kids would love it!” Later I came to my senses and called him back… “Uhh, I don’t think that’s such a good idea after all. Since it’s a fermented drink (which by the way is why it’s so good for you), it smells a little like beer, even though it only has a tiny amount of alcohol in there. But I’m thinking you probably don’t want the kids going home saying you taught them how to make beer.” He agreed that we’d better pass on that idea. LOL!
- Did you guys see this from Huffington Post? Back Pain? 10 Therapies to Consider. I only skimmed it, but I’d love to hear what you think and if you’ve dealt with back pain, what worked for you? (I may ask you this again later if I end up doing a whole post on it…)
Have a great day!
Welcome says
Geez, that’s uneblieablve. Kudos and such.
hottiern12 says
I love that you have Sangria at Bible study! 🙂
(and I wish it was 4HB legal…but I do need a belt for my jeans now, so I won’t complain and put it on my list of things to have on cheat day!)
KitchenKop says
They were good, too, but the white especially. In the red I had put pieces of orange and lemon and lime and it sort of tasted like the rind the next day when we drank it. I thought that’s how you made red Sangria, by soaking the citrus, and that a little peal was normally left on it, but must be not…
Krista says
As a massage therapist, I take slight issue with how the article on back pain just kind of brushed off massage…as well as lump it together with pain relievers. :/ While my scope of practice is as an allied health professional (am licensed by the state medical board of ohio), I therefore need to be careful to not use words like “cure” to describe the response my clients get. However, I deal with a great number of clients who have gotten some pretty darn long lasting benefits from massage for their back pain. I can’t believe the number of clients I see who have had back surgery that just made things worse. Not that surgery is necessarily a bad thing, but I have a suspicion that it’s overused. I am a particular fan of craniosacral therapy for much more than just back pain, (www.upledger.com) for myself as well as in my practice. I do a lot of stretching with my clients, based loosely off of Aaron Mattes’ work with Active Isolated Stretching, and that also helps a lot of people, myself included. I also credit my lack of back pain during my pregnancy to a great Chiropractor who practices the Webster technique. (which I’ve utilized pre-pregnancy as well…suffered some wicked bad falls during my years as a figure skater, hence the reason for so much bodywork..um, I also may be a little bit of a massage/bodywork junky!) Also, yoga is pretty awesome too.
Peggy says
I’ve had back pain for months at a time. I do NOT recommend NSAIDS (there are side effects they don’t tell you about like tinnitus, it’s as ototoxic as aspirin) or surgery unless the pain is extreme. I know far too many people permanently disabled by surgery intended to relieve minor, persistent pain. Two more therapies I would recommend: a topical rub like Orthogel (https://www.orthogel.com/) and a non-invasive disk repair system of traction and massage like (https://www.advancedhealing.net/id26.html) this one. I’m a big believer in chiropractic care, but don’t do well with Palmer method. Look around and find what works for you!
sue says
I didn’t learn very much from the back pain article, honestly. I’ve had best results after years and years of off & on back pain by doing daily strengthening exercises given to me by my chiropractor. I think these have kept me agile and strong so far.
sue says
I’d order the lasagna and pizza pans…………being older I have most kitchen things I need, but am still changing over, slowly, to more healthy ways of cooking for the top nutrition value!
Thanks for your work on this site – it is very fun to browse around and hear healthy ideas when one doesn’t have many friends who live that way and want to work on nutrition in their lives.
Thanks!
Micaela @MindfulMomma says
Thanks for linking to my post about Keeping up with Things that Break – and the Story of Electronics video. Powerful stuff, huh?
Stanley Fishman says
It is amazing how many runners die of heart attacks. I knew three runners who died of heart attacks. But I do not know anybody who died from walking.
Elisabeth says
I’ll be interested to read that article written by Kimberly. Congratulations to your boys for sticking it out. That’s a nice memory to share together. I’m sure it was kind of bittersweet, knowing that although you were successful someone else had died that day doing the same thing.
That is SO exciting that you have been given the opportunity to teach kids in school about nutrition.
Do you yourself grind your own flour or do you purchase it already ground?
Elisabeth
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
None of us knew anything about it until later that day. He ran the 25K & our boys were in the 5K.
I grind my own flour. 🙂
Julie says
I have heard about young runners having heart attacks–I wonder if it is a combination of overtraining coupled with an undiagnosed heart genetic heart problem.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
The news said autopsy showed clogged arteries, nothing about a genetic condition.
Sad any way you look at it, he had young kids. 🙁
Erica says
Hi Kelly,
Wow, the heart attack seems scary! I know someone who is a runner, and has asthma. I don’t know if she should be still running.